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The Great Hamster Massacre Featured
This is a debut novel and tells the tale of a nine year old's quest for a pet. The story is told from the point of view of Anna - a child in need of a pet. This is what happens when she eventually gets a pet - two in fact - hamsters. The hamsters are sweet creatures that 'accidentally' end up having a litter of little ones. As with many small rodents they are particularly susceptib ...
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Tarantula Tide Featured
Jack isn’t very impressed when his mother decides they are to spend the summer holidays on a remote island in the Shetlands. Everything changes though when he meets the girl next door along with her menagerie of pets and then an even more unusual stranger emerges from underneath the fridge, which is to change the lives of the two children forever. Jack and Izzie find adventure when a str ...
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The Graveyard Book Featured
Nobody ‘Bod’ Owens is an unusual boy. Hunted by the man who murdered his family, he has been raised from infancy in a graveyard, cared for by the resident ghosts and protected by an enigmatic guardian - who is neither of the dead, nor of the living. Bod himself occupies a kind of middle ground, still alive but granted some of the qualities of the dead. As he grows, he learns more ab ...
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The Bower Bird
“Knowing you are probably going to die in a year or two is like waiting for a train with people you really like seeing you off, and you know you aren’t going to see them ever again. You have so much you want to say to them and the train is due in any moment” Gussie, a 12-year old girl with a heart-condition has moved with her mum to St. Ives in Cornwall. Gussi ...
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Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman
I’m sure that for all the Horrid Henry fans out there, this is another Horrid Henry book that they’ll read over and over again. For those readers who like me, have only just been introduced to Horrid Henry, this book may have been the first – but will definitely not be the last. Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman is actually a collection of four short and ...
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Ways to Live Forever
Synopsis: Sam is an 11-year-old boy with a range of interests and a way with words. He presents his thoughts in scrapbook form and tells his story, that is, what it is like having terminal leukaemia. Review: Had I not been encouraged to read this book, I would not have chosen it. Thank goodness I did take the plunge - I was bowled over by it. It is impossible to describe h ...
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Little Mouse's Book of Fears
Synopsis: Within a spoof self-help book, Little Mouse records her own fears in the form of drawings, and collage as she nibbles her way through the pages. Finally she realises that she also has the power to frighten! Review: This is a must for all fans of Emily Gravett’s wonderfully creative picture books. Some phobias in the book are real such as arachnophobia ...
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Red, Cherry Red
Synopsis: From the hoarse, heaving seas of the Scottish isles to the dreamy streets of Paris, Jackie Kay takes the reader on a journey through memory and landscape, meeting a menagerie of characters on the way: fierce old Mrs Dungeon Brae, a weather-beaten fisherman, a girl in red running shoes and the exotic, the death-defying Cat Mandu. A wonderfully evocative new collection of poems t ...
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Penguin
Synopsis: Ben opens a present to find a penguin. At first, he is glad for his new friend but find that the gormless looking penguin doesn't do anything or say anything, no matter what Ben does with it. Ben gets fed up and tries to feed the penguin to a passing lion, which turns on Ben instead, and the penguin strikes back. After his rescue, Ben discovers that his true friend, t ...
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Monkey and Me
Synopsis:A cheeky little girl and her toy monkey swing irresistibly through the pages of this gorgeous playful book. Young children will love guessing what animal they are pretending to be, before shouting out the answers as the pages are turned to reveal the real creatures. Soon, everyone will be waddling like a penguin, jumping like a kangaroo and hanging upside down like a bat! ...
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